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Appalling sentence

Provincial reporter given one-year jail sentence over Facebook post

Published on 7 June 2012Read

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Harassment

Journalists still being hounded three months after new president’s installation

Published on 31 May 2012Read

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Open letter from Reporters Without Borders to the Yemeni president

Reporters Without Borders has written to President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi of Yemen about a proposed law to regulate private broadcasting and (...)

Published on 22 May 2012 Read

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Journalists attacked, threatened, arrested and prosecuted

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Although President Ali Abdallah Saleh was forced to stand down last February, media freedom violations are continuing at an (...)

Published on 17 May 2012 Read

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Threats and arson attacks on media in southern Yemen

Reporters Without Borders is very concerned about the intimidatory practices of Yemen’s security services, particularly in the south of the (...)

Published on 16 March 2012 Read

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Letter urges new president to guarantee media freedom

Reporters Without Borders has written to Yemen’s new president, former Vice-President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who was confirmed in his new post on (...)

Published on 1 March 2012 Read

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Detained journalist on hunger strike to press for release

Abdul Ilah Haydar Shae, a Yemeni journalist who has been detained in Sanaa since 16 August 2010 for alleged terrorist links, has been on hunger (...)

Published on 15 February 2012 Read

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Death threats to journalists and mob attacks on news media

Reporters Without Borders roundly condemns a recent surge in media freedom violations and attacks on journalists at a time of political tension (...)

Published on 8 February 2012 Read

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Despite Saleh departure plan, supporters and security forces still targeting journalists

December was a particularly black month for media freedom violations in Yemen although President Ali Abdallah Saleh agreed to a plan proposed by (...)

Published on 5 January 2012 Read

Middle East/North Africa

Media in the eye of the storm as revolutions sweep the Arab world

Reporters Without Borders takes stock of censorship and infringements of the right to information during the pro-democracy uprisings that began a (...)

Published on 1 December 2011 Read